My parents had always believed they were untouchable.
My father, Thomas Caldwell, was a well-known contractor in our quiet Ohio town — the kind of man people trusted with handshakes and Sunday smiles. He was a Rotary Club board member, the one who sponsored the high school football team every year and paid for the town’s Christmas lights. My mother, Margaret, ran the community garden and hosted tea parties that made her the unofficial queen of suburbia. Together, they were the picture of small-town virtue — generous, respectable, admired.
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